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Dani Nordin

Dani Nordin is a user experience designer who switched from Wordpress to Drupal in 2008. Since then, she’s been active as a voice in the Design for Drupal community and has spent entirely too much time looking for ways to make design for Drupal more efficient and effective. She speaks regularly at Boston Drupal events, including Boston’s Design for Drupal Camp. Dani is currently writing The Designer’s Guide to Drupal for O'Reilly, to be released in 2011.

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Build a Drupal 7 site from planning through to giving people the privilege of posting pages and other content, with lots of key concepts covered and tips given along the way. Building this site is continued in Chapters 8 and 33.

This chapter introduces two essential tools in the life of any Drupalista: Drush, the Drupal Shell which makes many tasks in Drupal much faster and easier; and Git, a distributed version control system which allows you to experiment freely with your code— and to collaborate with people around the world.

This chapter will give you an overview of creating effective documentation for Drupal project teams. Ideally, you’ll be creating documentation for a specific site’s eventual editors and administrators while also creating in-house documentation for the production team to help increase the efficiency of their workflow. I’ll also discuss some ways that members of the Drupal community have found to create documentation for the benefit of their fellow Drupallers—and how you can do the same.

Visual design plays a vital role in any successful website project. Like many content management systems, however, Drupal presents many challenges to designers who aren’t used to working with it. This appendix will give a bit of background on creating visual design for Drupal, and offer some helpful tips for making your life easier as a Drupal designer.

To set up a Drupal environment on a Mac platform using MAMP, start by downloading the free version of MAMP at http://mamp.info. Once the file has downloaded, unzip it, and click on the unzipped file to launch the installer...